American outlaws: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Compiled by Merrisa Brown, mySA.com

Warning: This slideshow contains graphic images. Eighty years ago today, on Jan. 16, 1934, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker orchestrated one of the most daring prison breaks in Texas history. Barrow helped five prisoners escape from the Eastham State Prison (now the Eastham Unit) in Lovelady, Texas, by providing the escapees with pistols and a cover of machine-gun fire. One prison officer was killed during the escape, which marked the beginning of the end for the Barrow gang, as the prison break intestified the manhunt for Bonnie and Clyde. The duo's robbery and murder spree ended with a posse's ambush in Bienville Parish, La., on May 23, 1934.

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Infamous outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are suspected of killing at least nine police officers and robbing ten banks and many more rural stores and gas stations before being gunned down by Texas and Louisiana police officers in 1934.

Infamous outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are suspected of killing at least nine police officers and robbing ten banks and many more rural stores and gas stations before being gunned down by Texas and Louisiana police officers in 1934.